Sure, it's fiction, but there's fiction that cares a little bit about the world that it's creating and there's fiction that doesn't care. It would have been so easy to change the scene to make it believable. First, they could have had the music in front of them. If not, Rodrigo also could have told them to jam on a…

"I know that tune from memory and I'm not even classically trained."

Yeah, I'm ok with certain inaccuracies for the sake of drama, but this show has too many that it's difficult for me to just watch without being annoyed. They're also things that could easily be fixed without changing the story. If I were writing it, I would have Rodrigo take the orchestra for an impromptu performance…

Basically any New York pizza place that offers a "meat lovers" is a place you don't want to order from. Rule with New York pizza joints is that the fewer pies you see on display the better the pizza.

The video you posted is of a jazz/rock group which is totally different. They rehearse their charts and know what they will play in advance. Those charts they can memorize easily because the notes they play are not all written out, they usually just have an outline of the chords and they improvise based on that.
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Ok this post is going to be really nitpicky so if you don't care about realism issues with this show then don't read it, but I can't help it.Let me first say that I did like the idea behind the episode. More orchestras should do cool things to gain greater public exposure. However, the total lack of realism kept me…

Ana Maria's performance seems to have been inspired by the Korean violinist Amadeus Leopold, who used to go by the name Hahn Bin. I couldn't find any youtube videos that really show some of the crazy stuff he does, but you'll get some idea from this one.

No nitpicks. But one point of interest, the exterior shot they used for the library is of the Saint Ann's School in Brooklyn Heights, where Hailey's "sister," Jemima Kirke, and also Lena Dunham are alumna.

Also slightly unrealistic for Hailey to badmouth Rodrigo in a public setting. From hanging out with music students in college, the impression I got is that the serious music community is super small and anything you say about someone can really come back to bite you. People are super careful who they criticize and to…

Not so many nitpicks this one, except there's no way that a professional orchestra would spend so much time rehearsing Hungarian March from the Damnation of Faust. It's a 4 minute piece and not particularly difficult. Also, I'm noticing some questionable string intonations in the recording of that piece they're using,…

If anyone is interested, here is a cool video of Gustavo Dudamel, the inspiration for "Rodrigo".

Yeah, I think that's right. Well, I think some of the inaccuracies were necessary for dramatic purposes like that she had to sit next to the first oboe so she would get psyched out, and she had to stop practicing so she could go meet that guy, but I think certain things could have been altered to make it a little more…

Thanks, I couldn't remember from the pilot. Who was the cello who sits in with the pit orchestra? another of her friends? Anyway, anyone friendly with a professional musician would probably know better than to tell them to stop practicing.

I actually did hear the Rach3 at the end of a concert with the Baltimore Symphony but I think that and maybe the Rach2 are the only concertos that would be put at the end of a concert.

Yeah, but I think with the various editing cuts we were meant to think it had been longer. Of course no professional orchestra is going to spend that much time rehearsing a 20-30 measures of music.

I was under the impression that orchestras tell the players the rehearsal schedule in advance though of course you're right it's unlikely they'd start a rehearsal in the middle of a section/movement.

7. Oh yeah, Malcolm Mcdowell is air conducting to a recording (lame, but some conductors probably do it). He says he really botched it at his final concert. The recording is of the Tchaikovsky violin concerto which is for solo violin and orchestra. They really programmed the Tchaikovsky violin concerto, which the…

Ok, just before some other nitpickers show up…

Re the fakeout: what were they going to even play? From what I remember there was no music on the stands. Maybe if he called out to them something like 'happy birthday ' in G, which they could pay by ear it would have made a little sense.

The only interesting thing I remember from the pilot is the Gustavo Dudamel-esque conductor saying that he would program a whole concert to be played in complete darkness. All I could think that would really work would be bolero, since the snare drum plays throughout the whole song and provides the beat so you…